The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 26, 1934, Page 4

Page Four National Guard Lures Boys With Fake Employment Ad Large Crowd of Youths Angry When Promise of Jobs Turns Out To Be : By a Worker Correspondent Year Enlistment 2nd Texas Ranch Is Described by Farmer Chain DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934 Slaughter and Burning of Cattle on Roosevelt Agents Shoot Gang Herd With High Powered Michigan PARTY LIFE Workers Clubs of 2 Cities In Socialist Competition Chicago and Cleveland Clubs Race To Fulfill DETROIT, Mich—“A rip to who died in the World Rifles After Owner Agrees to Burn Bodies | Tasks; Greet Browder, Central Committee Northern Michigan with pay. Ten be held Y Sree tr err eee | ere : men. wanted, 18 to 30: raido and| The men of the 32nd Division J S C O l By a Farmer Correspondent | the wounded cattle was hardly ] H, — electrical experience helpful, but| should understand that the men it . e Tt y | BARNHART, Tex. — The agents | enough to drown the yell of the kil- ntons uE | “From the mass meeting in Chi-|to our Daily Worker and literature rot necessary. Food, clothing and| who died in the World War died of the Roosevelt Raw Deal certainly |lers, squawking like a band of| | cago, where the agreement on so-| meetings which are called by the shelter furnished. Apply Lieut. in order to save the British and |are killing the cattle. On the Hen-|Comanchees, and after 100 shots| ‘ | cialist competition was signed be-|Section Committee. There seems to Holmes, Armory, Brush and Larned, French investments of Morgan and |derson ranch today they will kill|there were | about 1,500. Here is a description | about the lot. |of just how it’s done. I witnessed| The killers went in with axes, and | jone slaughter 10 miles south of | anywhere they could hit, the blow five cows staggering tween the Chicago and Cleveland districts of the Federation of Clubs of Serbian and Croatian Workers, | we send you and the Central Com- be a lack of political understanding of this work by the comrades in our units. How can we raise the political level of the masses? And Rockefeller. These boys from Michigan and Wisconsin died in order that Ford and* the other Monday between 7 and 8 p.m.” This appeared in the Detroit News of June 10. For Negroes Injunction The Lieutenant Holmes men- tioned is attached to Headquarters Michigan millionaires might make millions of dollars of profit from Condemned to 30 Days Barnhart of 15 head of cattle be- | was struck, until all were dispatched. |longing to R. L, Owens, after some | This small lot was burned. They | | | 'Rank and File Action | the United States our hearty revo- mittee of the Communist Party of how can we go out and organize the workers in shops and factories if we Co., Ist Battalion, 125th Infantry,| the war. Of Hell for Selling |papers were signed making claims| were good cows, for stockers, all In Polishers’ Local lutionary greetings, and pledge our-|do not gain influence, by spreading Michigan National Guard. Now these same Michizan = zi |fer the cattle, with Mr. Owens/calves weighing less than 200 selves that we will strain in all our}our Daily Worker and literature On the evening of Monday, June|men want to use the } Workers’ Papers agreeing to burn the dead cattle. | Starts Struggle efforts under the leadership of our|among the workers? ll, a large crowd of unemployed} Guard to nation ag Deaaee| ‘ Two ek ee Deal ae | Party, to fulfill all obligations that Our literature sale for this month roung workers were at the 125th| ments in China and the Far East.) 7 ers wit eir hig! wer rifles 7, we te king. i ye co hig le yale for the| The men of the Michigan Na-| Bro Woeeker Correspondent —_| sommenced pointing ther guns just ¥ GE hale Ry ta bhg: ese ie “Long shy gratecraih Party polaptinre tee dhs paige tid “jobs” that had been advertised. | tional Guard should fight with the| COLUMBIA, S. C.—I am just off| anywhere. They hit flank or nose GRAND RAPIDS, Mich—To of the United States and its leader, | which has done good work in selling They were very angry when the “jobs” proved to be three-year en- istments in the National Guard at the rate of 90 cents per drill.) workers, against the rich million- aires. A NATIONAL GUARDSMAN, the chain gang. | for selling workers’ | Labor Defender. |me 30 days here in South Carolina. This is some of the white terror I was put there | ang shed a lot of blood, on the Papers and the| fence, or ground. The bawling of The bosses iin. ee és have the rank and file of the unions turn militant and demand leadership in strike activity is not only embarrassing, but dangerous Comrade Browder! “L, F., Chairman of the Meeting, Chicago.” literature. Unit 411 sold more than half of the section literature sale for last month, which proves that it can be done if the sale is organ- e y MOVES | r N > to the A. F. of L. officials. For Seo Go. Sot other ‘Sennen “wee By cer Gareaesatecs | that we workers, Negro and white, | No -s ops, No Pasture how can they be expected to be} “Lass Sunday our clubs in the ba Pepin rigtetde eae at laughing and enjoyed the huge) HAMILTON, Ohio—On July 8 a|Set under the New Deal here in|| In North Dakota Area looked up to by the bosses as“‘safe”| District of Cleveland signed an P g ered, “joke” they had played on the young workers One young worker who had re- special train loaded with National Guardsmen stopped here and kk up between 65 or 70 sol- | Columbia. At the present time the | chain gang is filled with Negro workers all over S. C. By a Farmer Correspondent NETTINGER, N. Dakota. ae = : 2 ‘ At the present time. we are in t t IL mu : s Ks ago, . we send yo 5 = cently come to Detroit from Har- here in Hamilton on the| At 4:30 am, all must be up. Ati! qpere je no ersps in this part of || Fn ee ee ee eee eye alee ent et de ais | fae midst otra 2Dally Worker? cant Jan County, Kentucky, stopped) B. & O. Some said they were go-|5 a.m. they must be eating bread the west, no pasture, no feed, || Pounds and if good to eat, are good interna ional Po! ishers and Buffers a : pledge that wi ie Daigri Wika. Wikiccneipe au a caa Lieut. Holmes on the drill floor, ing in‘o training at Camp Terry.|and grits and gre At 5:30 all| 7 Unicn Local No. 7 walked out on|recticn of our Communist Party we si Stock is being shipped cut by to give beef to anyone. The others labor leaders if they cannot keep their following from demanding decent conditions? agreement of Socialist competition with the delegation of the Chicago District. From this great gathering which has not been the case up to date on the part of some of our comrades. started, Section 4 challenged all the through the Daily Worker as to and demanded to know what The boys were equipped with all| must be on the trucks to 70 to the|| thousands. We have nothing left ||ate shipped for canning, cet an suUERnen Gh Ba on eect later nace rest of the sections in the District the big idea. Some of the young strike-bi ng instr ments used in | roads, to work like hell until 1pm.!i here put broke and hungry It is said that the live stock el saree spe ait ane ela be phe sa acai er the conten to raise subscriptions for the Daliy Ww s had spent their last 14 all the past strikes all over this Then all must get dinner, some- | people. | marked for slaughter will run into | ware Saari tueburees nt eset system. and for the establishment | Worker and also to take the Dis- cents to look for these “jobs,” and | country. | thing that is not good for dogs to the millions. | Mich. and. were. followed «by! ithe of Boviet. amientoal. ong silve the | ttict banner away from Section 4, it turned out that it was the —-— jeat. At this point one rests one) OG eS machinists in the plant. The tead-|Oommunist Party! Long live Com. | Which ‘was won inthe Inst ‘cam- strike-breaking National Guard. NOTE |hour after this, and all must work Se ER +3 aes Pee iti ge Ve tle pick.|rade Browder and the Central |Pign. In spite of that, our own Lieut. Holmes could make no an- We publish letters from farmers, j until 7 p.m. like hell. At this point ey ‘ ers dit ae ee ee fa le picl i Gamsaiites ‘of the Communist | Section is lagging behind in raising Bwer. ‘ | agricultural workers, lumber and | all are brought back to camp, end] Bi ht Sweatin St | M l L eting, but when the boys com- | Comm At ecriptioea We wouli ike: te The Michigan National Guard| forestry workers, and cannery |eat supper. You only get cornmeal | ae Wea, SS CLOW. eet fo eee toe f “C. P., Chai hear from the other _ sections has its annual maneuvers from| workers every Thursday. These | bread and black molasses. Then aes sy a Ee . F Chehaen ot July 7 to 22 this year. The review of the 32nd Division will take place at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July workers are urged to send us let- ters about their conditions of work and their struggles to organize. | the bosses chain all the poor Ne- | groes to their beds at night. cannot get up at night. One Speed-Up in Phila. | Pay for Waiters injunction, the leaders said in ef- fect, that it was too bad, but the Cleveland Meeting.” aie aan Sec. 4, Chicago, Wants to Know whether the other sections have ac- cepted our challenge or not. i 7 - 7 | i Daily Worker and Literature 14, at Grayling, Mich. At 10 a.m.| Please get these letters to us by This is what the Negroes now ° * only thing that we can do is to What Has Happened to Its July 15, a memorial! Monday of each week. get in South Carolina. They don't | re aun ry n ocialist Cam lappeal to the Regional Labor Ghalltnge oniadieratars Agent, Sec. 4. ae ii Tad = | put white men on the chain gang) Board—that instrument of the Distribution ; i ; That women in Great Britain are going through struggles just like ours, is shown by the women’s sec- tion of the English Daily Worker. A Scottish comrade writes in to describe the wretched housing she has to endure in Glasgow: “I live in the Gorbals, in a build- | ing where there is neither water nor gas, There is one lavatory for 21 persons and the drains are so rotten that a person would need | a gas mask when leaving or en-| tering the houses. . . . The place is also alive with rats, and to crown) it all there is a workshop on the} bottom two stories with tons of in-) flammable material. In the event of fire there would be no other es- cape than through the windows. . .”| Another woman writes about mis- | erable conditions in a Jondon ma- ternity hospital where she is wait- ing to give birth: ‘The food is appalling. I don't know how they concoct such messes. I am supposed to be on a diet and I certainly am. I haven't eaten any dinner since I've been in here. | I told the nurse I'd rather be shot than poisoned, and I think she agreed with me. . . . About the| worst mess we had was yesterday | (Sunday), some potato, tomato cooked, and pale pink beet-root, | just like wood, and the smell was} awiul... .” | Huge doses of laxative were ad- ministered with instructions not to get out of bed (necessity compelled | disobedience of this mandate), women in labor were left in the wards “until the last minute’ where | their suffering demoralized the} courage of the women waiting their | time. “My nerve is properly gone,” | confesses the comrade, concluding: “I spent a good part of the time} running down the corridors for) nurses to tell them that Mrs. So-| and-So was very bad or somebody else had just been sick, We women should try and do something to get better hospitals, and demand that they have more nurses, because the few they do have are terribly over-| worked.” A: Guildswoman writes of her anxiety over the Sedition Bill which | the English workers are fighting: “My husband—and I take it he is no different from thousands more | —thinks it is no good trying to get| soldiers to think for themselves about their orders—even though] they are ordered to fire on strikers. | But we women are different. Dur-| ing a general strike, for instance, | how could we stand by and see our Strikers shot down by soldiers whese mothers, wives, and sisters we Orer...- “We Guildswomen feel deeply about these things, but we h ) little time to bus’ w outside politics, our homes, families, | the eternal round of cooking, clean- ing, washing, is so much on top of us, that we look to others, more free . .. to fight this battle... . Almost anything we say to the sol- diers about war is going to be called sedition, and may lead to impris- onment. There is not a woman in our Guild who would not join some great strike of housewives and mothers if such could be organized to prevent war. Can we not do Something like this? ...” Seven accidents took place in a teotemdienk 5 week on Arkwright Street, Canning | Town, because, when this street be- came popular as a shortcut to a new highway, authorities didn’t want to spend money for railings to keep children safe. Terrible conditions were revealed by investigation of a girl's home. AND the “Council of Action” in Stoke-on-Trent led work- ers to resist evictions, so that Massey Square tenants (who had gone beyond their means), were permitted to remain in their homes. Shake, English comrades! It’s just like home: Same damned old capitalist system showing through every re! Can You Make ’Em Yourself? Pattern 1897 is available in sizes 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46. Size 36 takes 3% yards 39 inch fabric. Illustrated step-by-step sewing in- structions included. Send FIFTEEN CENTS (lsc) in coins or stamps (coins preferred) for this Anne Adams pattern. Write plainly name, address and _ style he BE SURE TO STATE IZE. Address orders to Daily Worker Pattern Department, 243 W. 17th St. New York City. Daily Worker 50 East 13th St. New York, N. ¥. TRIAL SUBSCRIPTION OFFER Send me the Daily Worker every day for two months. I enclose $1 (check or money order). Name ........ City Nete: This offer does not appiy fer Manhcttan and Bronx. seeeee Address... to renewals, nor does i State.. hold good Help the Drive for 20,000 NEW READERS— © | terday's any more in Columbia. The bosses put all the white men in the State Prison. They tell the white men that they are a little better than the “god damn niggers.” We work all day on the chain | gang, and at night we must sleep in the same clothes that we worked }in all day, They only change | clothes once a week, on Saturday | evening about 3:30 p.m. They march all the Negroes to the creek to take a wash. Com- rades, this is pure hell here in 5. C. No one gets this treatment except Negroes. They have ruined my health. The poor Negro prisoners have to work in water in the winter time. Sometimes is is so deep many of them get sick and die, and that is all to it. We hope the day will come when all this will be cut out, but only when a farmers’ and workers’ government is set up in the U. S. A. Only a farmers’ government will pu: the Negroes and white workers in the right place here in the U. S. A. Letters from Our Readers CORRECTION In an editorial note on the “Militant” which appeared in yes- “Letters from Readers” column, the sentence “the impor- tance of the Trotskyites to destroy the solidarity of the revolutionary workers is shown by the smallness of their numbers” is an error. This sentence should read “the impo- tence of the Trotskyites, etc.” | | | “LABORATORY AND SHOP” PRAISED. New York City. Editor, Daily Worker, Dear Sir: May we express our pleasure at your new column in the “Daily” entitled Laboratory and Shop Notes. As the only genuine trade union in the technical field, we have for some time felt the importance of such a stev. The technical men of this country have a lot to learn and a lot to unlearn. This has been our task so far and we are sincerely grateful for your co-operation. In addition the column is well written and has real interest. Sincerely yours, I. EHRLICH, Secretary, New York Chapter, Federation of Architects, Enzincers, Chemists and Technicians. FASCIST TERROR New York City. Dear Comrades: I have searched through our pa- per for’ some sign of a menace to the workers of America that has escaped detection as yet. Ti is a movement organized by one B. E. Claybourne. I attended such a meeting in Poughkecpsie: there were about 200 young men. First there was a gigantic drill for 40 minutes, then a military instruction class in street fighting. Claybourne seemed to do mest of the directing with five aides. Then came a talk by Claybourne of a bloodcurdling character. And during the speech some one who was a visitor got up to ask if he (Claybourne) would use _ force against all ideas of the workers. Claybourne then invited him on the stage from which he was speak- ing. He then asked him if he was a Communist, the answer was, yes. Claybourne then said, “We answer all Communists in only one way.” And in a second the questioner lay on the floor with a broken arm, and | then Claybourne applied a hold, causing the man to scream in agony. Claybourne is an exvert in Japanese wrestling. His action was loudly cheered. Claybourne is said to have 3,000 such men in training | in the U. S. In Chicago I was told that a com- |rade was followed home from a | meeting after he made the remark | that next time he would bring a |man from the Party paper. and the | whole family were nesrly beaten to | deeth and watched a week there. after, They are training to terrorize us in the most terrible manner. Can you print something in the paper and see what other comrades know about this? Or at least warn them and workers’ | | By a Laundry Worker Corre- spondent PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—The boss hour is too much for us slaves who are ruining our health in his sweat box. So he tried to cut us to 20 cents. But the mangle heip, in response to the call of the Or- ganizational Committee, put up a fight and refused to go to work, and the boss was forced by this militant action to give back the wage cut. But now he is trying to sweat it out from us by greater speed-up in all departments and layoffs. He already sent home over 50 per cent of the wash men, put in new ma- chinery, and‘is making the remain- ing nine men do the work of the original 20, The damp-wash work- ers he sent down into the base- ment, where the terrible steam and heat are killing, so as to economize on space. He is speeding up the shirt-workers and threatening the mangle help with layoffs. At the same time he is working us late hours without extra pay. But we have learned from the example of the mangle help that. by uniting and standing together we can fight against the miserable conditions in the laundry and win cur demands. So we, in. all. de- partments, led by the Organiza- tional Committee, are organizing into a miiltant union, the Laundry Workers’ Industrial Union, to fight together for better working condi- tions, against the speed-up, for higher wages. Our union is a rank and file union controlled by all the workers, and not at all like that of the A. F. of L. crowd which once collected $1 initiation fees from us and then left us flat. The boss is so afraid of us or- ganizing that he is getting the jit- ters. When three young workers came from the union to give out leaflets, he called the police, had them arrested, and railroaded them to 10 days in jail each. But the International Labor Defense was notified, and got them out. It is the same I. L. D. which is fighting for the freedom of the nine innocent Negro Scottsboro boys whom the bosses in Alabama railroaded to the electric chair Every worker in the Cornell Laundry, join the union so we can all fight together for better work- ing conditions and higher wages! Pay Unemployed to Sow Crops That Farmers Are Paid to Destroy By a Worker Correspondent NIOTA, Tenn.—John Emerson, a man in the thirties, about two miles from Niota, shot and killed a feeble old man in the seventies, and at the hearing before the jus- tice of the peace he was sent to jail without bond, the justice claim- ing it was murder in the firs: de- gree. After a day the big judge placed the bond at $10,000, which John Emerson’s father hasn’t made yet. And the Negro comrade in Atlanta (Angelo Herndon) was given $15,000 bond for organizing the workers. That seems to be a bigger crime than killing a man. About two miles from Athens, Tenn., they had a tractor plowing and using lime and fertilizer, and they are raising farm produce there on that big farm with the unem- ployed in Athens. A man told me they pay their unemployed 30 cents per hour, $4.80 per week, two days to the week, for married men, no single men allowed to work. But what gets me to thinking is this government paying the farmers not to produce crops, and paying the unemployed to do that very thing. And another fine thing, they charge the unemployed 20 cents per day to ride in an open dump truck to and from Athens. The farmers can hardly sell their produce around here. They are also building an airport in Athens; they pay 45 cents per hour on that job, two days a week. ef violence at the hands of this |man, They seemed to be very se- cret about their mestings in the past. but I am sure some comrades must know. I shall watch your papers very closely, and will call or write again if I know more. c. B. « in the Cornell Laundry thinks that | the miserable sum of 25 cents an| | hotel style. By a Worker Correspondent COLD SPRING, N. ¥.—There is a camp down here, Camp Eden, that’s run by the Socialist Farband. The president of this camp is the notorious labor faker, Mr. Chanin. | He has nut in charge as manager a who | hotel owner, Mr. Feldman manages the kitchen according to The help they feed the rottenest food. We get the dry bread that’s a week old and sardines every Cay. Milk is not given to the help, The waiters got a “new deal” this season, with the meagre pay of $40 a season, We have to buy our coats that cost $2.40, and we have to pay 40 cents a week for our laundry. As a result, of the rotten food, many of the help have quit. Of course, the Pankens and the Weinburghs that came down here to maneuver about the so-called Declaration of Princinles were not interested in investigating condi- tions in Camp Eden. Yes. Mr. Judge Panken and Mr. Chanin, you are talking about “workers’ democracy.” We waiters know your demagogic misleading phrases. We are not enjoying this democracy in Camp Eden. You are not giving us the right to organize. You, Mr. Chanin, have put Mr. Feldman in as manager, and he drives the lives out of us. cost you $5, he instructed the weit- ers. camp in the Daily Worker. {smuggle in the “Daily” | Nitgedaiget. An. 18-hour Day for Bachelors of Science We here from Ey a Worker Correspondent NEW YORK.—Was out at Jones Beach (State Park) yesterday and had a lovely time. Promised the boy fricnd to forget about the class struggle for a day. But it just didn’t work out. The boy friend was ordering a sandwich over the counter at the cafeteria there. He was a little im- patient and made some wisecrack. “Listen, buddy,” says the counter- man, “we work 18 hours a day here and this is Sunday night.” Later, one of the bus boys told us that there are quite a few boys working there who hold Bachelor of Science dezrees. Scientists by grace of the state authority. but mere straws as workers, in a State Park. But if all those straws got to- gether, they’d make a broom that would sweep the boss off his feet. (I believe it’s a concession there.) $3.77 A WEEK FOR COUPLE By a Worker Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO. — I'm on the City's Emergency Relief for which my wife and I get the fat sum of $3.77 a week and a pint of milk a day. But they do not pay my rent. They tell me further that I soon will get three days work a week. Bankhead Bill Hated, Writes Texas Farmer By a Worker Correspondent MINEOLA, Tex. — I have just read the “Striking Industry” ar- ticle in the Liberty magazine, and also the article “Russia Comes Out of the Red” in the Country Home meaazine. They all own up that the Communist move- ment is gaining ground. Soon 1! hope to sce the world ruled by the proletariat, instead of the rich class. I must report the Bankhead Bill is not liked very much by the majority of farmers here The drought is going to make crops here almost a failure. People are realizing that times are not getting better under the Roosevelt rezime. Iam hungry for a Daily Worker so please find six cents to cover the same. I am not sub:cribing for thess mazezines that contained the articles just read. If I were able to subscribe for a paper it would be the Daily Worker above all. For every plate you break it will We would like you to expose tinis | bosses to kill strikes by withhold- | ing action against the guilty till the strikers have died of starvation. Rank and File Leadership The strikers couldn't see it that way altogether, and some of the militents got mad and came to these “terrible” Communists, who helped them to draw up plans to | continue picketing and broaden out the interest and sympathy of the strike. Committees were formed and a rank and file leadership was ‘set up. Explanations were made that the officials of the A. F. of L. would do everything within ‘heir power to wean them away from Communist leadership—that the “Red Scare” would be raised and that even Communist headquarters might be raided by hoodlums in the guise of patriots, and a host of other things. The strikers did not believe that their more or less A. F. of L. lead- ers would do anything dishonest, but it was no time at all before they found themselves weaned away from militant strike activity. And very cleverly, too. That is just what happened, but before this an Anti-Injunction Con- ference had been called at which 39 delegates from a wide variety of working class organizations were present and certain resolu- tions shattering the peace and quietude of the A. F. of L. offi- cials, were passed. That same day, the Regional Labor Board rendered its decision—that (he management of the Winters and Crampton plant be fined $1,000 or a spell in jail. | Needless. to say that the case was carried to Washington, where it will rest’ in somebody's wastebasket till long after the strike has been forgotten; then it will be likewise disposed of. Vote Mass Demonstration This did not smother the realiza- tion among other workers for mili- tant action to “smash the injunc- tion,” with the result that a week later a motion from the floor was made for a mass demonstration at the plant and carried almost | unanimously in the Central Trades and Labor Temple, much against the shakey guts of the A. F. of L. officials, especially the president, Brother Claud Taylor, who came up to the Trade Union Unity League and disclaimed that he was a leader, but just a rank and filer in the position of leader, that he was just a common person, no dif- ferent from Debs. In the meantime, the Executive Committee of the Anti-Injunction Conference arranged for another conference. They tried to get the use of one of the numerous rooms in the Labor Temple, but of course that was impossible—although the rulers of the Temple blah con- stantly that they are against the injunction. An amusing side touch | occurred when one chap was hand- ing out calls for the conference to the men outside the Temple; one of the officials came out and com- menced bawling at him for hand- ing out “that red stuff.” “Bu,” exclaimed the “don’t you believe in this?” “No,” snarled our heroic leader, “its a lot of bunk.” “What,” asked the lad with the | leafiets in amazement, “aren’t you against smashing the injunction?” The rest of the story is like the one of the yellow dog with the long yellow tail. But long yellow tails and shaking guts of “labor leaders” will avail them but little, for from the next Anti-Injunction Conference, which will be held Friday, July 27, at 8 Pm. in the Flurer Hall, at Sheldon and Oak Sts., should come a de- termined stand to come to grins with the injunction menace and to arrange organized action to mect it head on, to smash it and con- tinue militant picketing till the strike is won. other, THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE A “HOME” By a Worker Correspondent ROCKFORD, Ill.—Rockford Tran- sient Home fumigates the clothing of all its guests three times on en- tering. Have to go to the docter three times on entering. Rules ers stricter than in prison. Hun‘ reds cf men won't check im on account of vrison-lik> rules and red tar seem to try end make c> the transient as psscibic. Focd is fair, place overcrowded, and ‘in downtown section as The Resolution of our District Convention and also Comrade Browder’s report to the National Convention, clearly pointed out the importance of the Daily Worker and our literature, as well as the short- comings of our work in broadening the circulation and spreading the Daily Worker and our | literature among the American working class. This has been and is today the weakest link in our work. Here in Section 4 of the Chicago District our comrades do not take this work very seriously. There is no response | Join the Communist Party 36 E. 12h STREET, N. Y. C. Please send me more informa- tion on the Communist Party. Name Street . City Reception to Wilii Muenzenberg Willi Muenzenberg, the organizer {of thousands of physicians in pre- Hitlerite Germany, for ten years a member of the German Reichstag, publisher of the “Gegen-Angriff” | (Strassbourg); the “Arbeiter Illus- trierte Zeitung” (Prague) and “Un- | sere Zeit” (Paris), will be given an informal reception at the home of Dr. Paul Luttinger, 5 Washington Square North, at 8:30 P..M. Tonight. ‘The sponsors are Maicolm Cowley, Joseph Freeman, Edward Dahlberg, Sidney Howard, Michael Gold and Paul Luttinger. The readers of this column are invited to be present and hear this famous writer and wit speak on a subject of absorbing in- terest. Refreshments will be served. Prevention of Lead Poisoning (Continued) The symptoms of lead poisoning depend on whether the condition is acute or chronic. Acute lead pois- oning occurs most often among those who have been recently ex- posed to the poison and who absorb the lead from the respiratory tract. Legge found that out of 1,463 em- ployees, thirty-nine per cent of those annually employed were pois- oned; while the incidence among those regularly employed was only six per cent. This shows that the unskilled are more likely to become victims of lead poisoning than those who are acquainted with © the dangers and methods of prevention. Acute lead poisoning is fatal in a relatively short time. The intestinal tract becomes inflamed, the bowels are first constipated, then colic develops with excruiating abdominal pain and rapidly progressing ane- mia. Irritation of the encephalon (part of the brain) often. occurs, with epileptic convulsions, maniac (insane) excitement, delirium, par- tial or total blindness, delusions, coma (unconsciousness) and death. Cases of acute plumbism which re- cover, often end in permanent in- sanity. In the chronic cases (the more common form), the poisoning is so eratual that the affected worker is hardly aware of the warning symp- toms. By PAUL LUTTINGER, M.D. —. ache, dizziness, loss of appetite, and strength, constipation, indigestion, loss of weight, irritability (“cranki- ness”), weakness and progress to pains in the muscles and joints. If the patient does not pay attention to the symptoms, abdominal colic with diarrhea sets in, with severe anemia and a blue line along the edges of the gums. This blue line is due to lead sulphide and is one of the chief signs of chronic lead poisoning. As the disease progres- ses, the patient becomes depressed, his blood pressure increases and the pains in his legs become so severe that he (and his physician) often mistake them for “rheumatism” or gout. The pain is worse at night and the resulting insomnia (lack of sleep) further undermines the pa- tient’s resistance. His face looks “pinched” and he develovs a pecu- lar gray paleness, called saturnine pallor and a disagreeable sweetish taste in the mouth. Finally he develops paralysis of his hands or legs, the earliest manifestation of which is paralysis of the muscles of the forearm resulting in what is known as “wrist drop.” At this point, most patients seek medical advice; but if this is not available, the condition goes on to apoplexy (stroke) or insanity. (To Be Continued) City-Wide Conference In Kansas City Ratifies Communist Candidates KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 25— A city-wide conference was held here yesterday to back the Con- gressional candidacies of Lewis Hurst and George Hopkins, both well known in Kansas City for their leadership of the unemployed in their struggles for relief. Both are members of the Communist Pariy and are running on their Party’s ticket. The conference met at 1904 Brooklyn Ave., to consider plans for the organization of the state clection campaign of the They may begin with head-| Communist Party in Missouri. | $15,009 ‘| International Labor Defense Room 430, 80 East 11th St. New York City (cross out one) Liberty Bonts $... return as agvecd. | Addvess SPECIAL HERNDON BAIL FUND I advance—I donate $........ Free Angelo Herndon! “Since the Georgia Supreme Court upheld my sentence of 18 to 20 years, the bosses and their jail tools have increased the pressure on me, I am deathly gick as a result of the murderous treatment ac- corded me during my two years of confinement. ever being in the ranks again is in your strength.”—From a letter from Angelo Herndon—Fulton Tower Jail, June 7, 1934. My only hopes of $15,000 Nos....... tee ceeees eee toward the Bail Fund fer Angelo Herndon with the understanding that this will be returned as soon as this Bail is released. Certificates will be issued for this Dail Fund gunranteeing its